Can the metaverse bring us closer to wildlife? | Gautam Shah

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Technologist and TED Fellow Gautam Shah invites us to imagine how the metaverse could redefine the relationships between humans and other species. By giving individual wild animals a personal identity (such as Fio, a young orangutan in Borneo, or Mweituria, an elephant living in Kenya) and sharing data on their migration, milestones and habitats, Shah thinks we could empathize with wildlife in a whole new way. Learn more about how emerging technology could bring us closer to the natural world -- and what the connections we build there could mean for the future of the planet.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily, I'm Elise Hume.
0:07.5	Virtual worlds can transport us.
0:10.2	They widen our perspective and our imagination.
0:13.8	What if they allowed us humans to better understand animals and the natural world?
0:19.4	In his Ted 2022 talk, conservationist Gautam Shah asks us to consider how animals will
0:25.1	play a role in the fast-expanding metaverse.
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